Ardachaidh
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Has anybody heard of global warming? Transport accounts for over 20% of GHG emissions and has not been decreasing while other sectors have. The ICE is dirty polluting and wasteful of energy. Emissions from vehicles are responsible for hundreds of thousands of premature deaths worldwide. Recovering oil is extremely damaging to the environment. Governments have bowed down before the car lobby and further damaged the environment by building more and more roads to cater for more and more and bigger and bigger vehicles when proper investment in public transport would be much more beneficial. The cost of congestion caused by too many vehicles on the road runs into hundreds of millions. People who rely on cars for simple short journeys instead of walking or cycling are more likely to be damaging their health through lack of fitness.
I have an electric car and am very pleased with it. We mainly do fairly short journeys, (but we also walk and cycle a lot) and have done a couple of longer ones which required just a little more planning than usual. When we charge it at home the power is pollution free as we have PV panels - and here in Scotland most charge points are free.
EV's may not be the long-term answer, although technology is improving all the time, and maybe hydrogen is a better long-term solution but if you are concerned about global warming then EV is the way to go, if you can.
I have an electric car and am very pleased with it. We mainly do fairly short journeys, (but we also walk and cycle a lot) and have done a couple of longer ones which required just a little more planning than usual. When we charge it at home the power is pollution free as we have PV panels - and here in Scotland most charge points are free.
EV's may not be the long-term answer, although technology is improving all the time, and maybe hydrogen is a better long-term solution but if you are concerned about global warming then EV is the way to go, if you can.